Patents Assigned to Nippon Sheet Glass Company, Limited
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Publication number: 20230121323Abstract: The present invention is a windshield on which an information acquisition device that acquires information from outside of a vehicle by emitting and/or receiving light can be arranged, the windshield including: an outer glass plate; an inner glass plate; an interlayer film arranged between the outer glass plate and the inner glass plate; and a mask layer laminated on at least one of a surface on a vehicle interior side of the outer glass plate and a surface on a vehicle exterior side of the inner glass plate, in which the interlayer film includes a colored shade region, a transparent non-shade region, and a transparent sheet member that is fitted into at least one through hole formed over the shade region and the non-shade region.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2021Publication date: April 20, 2023Applicant: NIPPON SHEET GLASS COMPANY, LIMITEDInventors: Kazuki CHIBA, Hisashi OGAWA, Hisashi ASAOKA
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Patent number: 11630252Abstract: An optical filter (1a) includes a light-absorbing layer (10). The light-absorbing layer absorbs light in at least a portion of the near-infrared region. When light with a wavelength of 300 nm to 1200 nm is incident on the optical filter (1a) at incident angles of 0°, 30°, and 40°, the optical filter (1a) satisfies given transmittance requirements. Nine differences each obtained as a difference between one and another of IE?xR, IE?yG, and IE?zB defined for incident angles ?° of 0°, 30°, and 40° satisfy given requirements, and ranges satisfy given requirements, each range being a difference obtained by subtracting the smallest value of three differences from the largest value of the three differences, the three differences obtained from IE?xR, IE?yG, and IE?zB collectively defined for the same pair selected from the incident angles ?°.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2018Date of Patent: April 18, 2023Assignee: NIPPON SHEET GLASS COMPANY, LIMITEDInventors: Tomitaka Takagi, Katsuhide Shimmo
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Publication number: 20230111902Abstract: A windshield according to the present invention includes an outer glass plate, an inner glass plate that faces the outer glass plate, and an intermediate film disposed between the outer glass plate and the inner glass plate, and in at least a partial region of the outer glass plate and the inner glass plate, compressive principal stress on a surface on a vehicle exterior side of the outer glass plate is larger than compressive principal stress on a surface on a vehicle interior side of the inner glass plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2021Publication date: April 13, 2023Applicant: Nippon Sheet Glass Company, LimitedInventors: Takahiro SHIMOMURA, Kenshu ANDO, Hirofumi HOTTA
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Publication number: 20230098170Abstract: The present invention provides a glass antenna to be provided on a window glass of a vehicle, and the glass antenna includes a hot portion, a ground portion, and an antenna main body connected to the hot portion and the ground portion. The glass antenna is configured to receive radio waves with a frequency band of 600 MHz to 5 GHz.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2021Publication date: March 30, 2023Applicant: Nippon Sheet Glass Company, LimitedInventor: Hidetoshi OKA
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Publication number: 20230096675Abstract: The present invention provides an automobile window glass on which a device that acquires electromagnetic waves is disposable. The automobile window glass includes an outer glass plate, an inner glass plate, an intermediate film disposed between the outer glass plate and the inner glass plate, and a blocking layer that is disposed on at least one of a surface on the vehicle interior side of the outer glass plate and a surface on the vehicle interior side of the inner glass plate. The intermediate film includes a functional layer having a transmission region that allows transmission so as not to affect reception of the electromagnetic waves, and an adhesion layer that is disposed on at least one surface of the functional layer and does not affect reception of the electromagnetic waves. The blocking layer has at least one opening at a position corresponding to the transmission region.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2021Publication date: March 30, 2023Applicant: Nippon Sheet Glass Company, LimitedInventor: Kazuki CHIBA
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Patent number: 11607687Abstract: A reaction processing vessel includes: a substrate; a channel for a sample to move that is formed on the substrate; a first air communication port and a second air communication port provided at respective ends of the channel; and a thermal cycle region for applying a thermal cycle to the sample that is formed between the first air communication port and the second air communication port in the channel. The channel includes a first branch channel and a second branch channel between the thermal cycle region and the first air communication port.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2019Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: Nippon Sheet Glass Company, LimitedInventor: Takashi Fukuzawa
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Patent number: 11592603Abstract: An optical filter (1a) includes a UV-IR-absorbing layer and has the following characteristics (i) to (v) when light with wavelengths of 300 nm to 1200 nm is incident at an incident angle of 0°: (i) an average transmittance of 78% or more in the wavelength range of 450 nm to 600 nm; (ii) a spectral transmittance of 1% or less in the wavelength range of 750 nm to 1080 nm; (iii) a spectral transmittance of 1% or less in the wavelength range of 300 nm to 350 nm; (iv) a decreasing spectral transmittance with increasing wavelength in the wavelength range of 600 nm to 750 nm and a first IR cut-off wavelength in the wavelength range of 620 nm to 680 nm; and (v) an increasing spectral transmittance with increasing wavelength in the wavelength range of 350 nm to 450 nm and a first UV cut-off wavelength in the wavelength range of 380 nm to 430 nm.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2018Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: NIPPON SHEET GLASS COMPANY, LIMITEDInventor: Yuichiro Kubo
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Publication number: 20230055491Abstract: There is provided a method of manufacturing an image sensor unit, the image sensor unit including: a linear light source that illuminates a document along a main scanning direction; a rod lens array that includes a plurality of rod lenses arranged in the main scanning direction and condenses a light reflected from the document; and a linear image sensor that receives a light condensed by the rod lens array. When a rod lens having an optically discontinuous portion on a surface and/or interior of the rod lens is included, the rod lens array is arranged such that the optically discontinuous portion is not located toward the document.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 3, 2022Publication date: February 23, 2023Applicant: Nippon Sheet Glass Company, LimitedInventors: Shuya OGI, Eiichi Nakaoka
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Publication number: 20230057817Abstract: A cover member according to the present invention includes a transparent substrate that has a first main surface and a second main surface and a transparent first functional layer that is layered on the first main surface of the substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 25, 2020Publication date: February 23, 2023Applicant: Nippon Sheet Glass Company, LimitedInventors: Koji TAKAHASHI, Hisao IMAI, Kazuaki OYA, Kiyomi HAYASHI
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Patent number: 11585968Abstract: An optical filter (1a) includes a light-absorbing layer and satisfies the following requirements (i) to (iii) when light with wavelengths of 300 nm to 1200 nm is incident at an incident angle of 0°: (i) an average transmittance of 78% or more in the wavelength range of 450 nm to 600 nm; (ii) a spectral transmittance of 1% or less in the wavelength range of 750 nm to 1080 nm; and (iii) a decreasing spectral transmittance with increasing wavelength in the wavelength range of 600 nm to 750 nm and a first IR cut-off wavelength in the wavelength range of 620 nm to 680 nm. The requirement (i), the requirement (ii), and the requirement (iii) are satisfied by the light-absorbing layer (10).Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2018Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: NIPPON SHEET GLASS COMPANY, LIMITEDInventor: Yuichiro Kubo
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Patent number: 11579087Abstract: A reaction processing apparatus includes: a reaction processing vessel; a first fluorescence detection device that irradiates a sample with first excitation light and detects first fluorescence produced from the sample; and a second fluorescence detection device that irradiates a sample with second excitation light and detects second fluorescence produced from the sample. The wavelength range of the first fluorescence and the wavelength range of the second excitation light overlap at least partially. The first excitation light and the second excitation light flash at a predetermined duty ratio d. The phase difference between the flashing of the first excitation light and the flashing of the second excitation light is set within a range of 2?(pm??pm) (rad) to 2?(pm+?pm) (rad) or within a range of 2?[(1?pm)??pm] (rad) to 2?[(1?pm)+?pm] (rad), where pm=d?d2 and ?pm =0.01*pm.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2022Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: Nippon Sheet Glass Company, LimitedInventors: Takashi Fukuzawa, Hidemitsu Takeuchi, Osamu Kawaguchi
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Patent number: 11575192Abstract: A rear glass according to the present invention is a rear glass that is attachable to a resin lift-up back door in a rear of a vehicle, the rear glass including a glass plate, a defogger that is arranged in the vicinity of a center of the glass plate in an up-down direction, and an AM antenna that is arranged upward of the defogger on the glass plate, in which the AM antenna includes a power supply part and an antenna element that extends from the power supply part.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2018Date of Patent: February 7, 2023Assignee: NIPPON SHEET GLASS COMPANY, LIMITEDInventors: Tatsumi Tokuda, Hideaki Oshima, Kosuke Tanaka
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Patent number: 11560671Abstract: A rubber-reinforcing cord (12) of the present invention includes at least one strand. The strand includes at least one filament bundle and a coating provided to cover at least a portion of a surface of the filament bundle. The coating includes a rubber component including at least one selected from the group consisting of carboxyl-modified nitrile rubber and carboxyl-modified hydrogenated nitrile rubber, an isocyanate compound, a bismaleimide compound, carbon black, and a rubber-modified epoxy resin. In the coating, the content of the isocyanate compound is 10 to 50 parts by mass, the content of the bismaleimide compound is 5 to 25 parts by mass, the content of the carbon black is 2 to 18 parts by mass, and the content of the rubber-modified epoxy resin is 5 to 30 parts by mass, with respect to 100 parts by mass of the rubber component.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2018Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: Nippon Sheet Glass Company, LimitedInventor: Shinya Katagiri
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Patent number: 11555596Abstract: A radiation angle changing element bonded to a housing includes: a glass substrate; and a resin layer provided on the glass substrate and having an optically functioning part. In a bonding portion bonded to the housing, the resin layer is not formed on the glass substrate.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2021Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: Nippon Sheet Glass Company, LimitedInventors: Keiji Tsunetomo, Satoru Kusaka
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Patent number: 11550086Abstract: An optical filter (1a) includes a light-absorbing layer (10). The light-absorbing layer absorbs light in at least a portion of the near-infrared region. When light with a wavelength of 300 to 1200 nm is incident on the optical filter (1a) at an incident angle of 0°, the optical filter (1a) satisfies given requirements. When light with a wavelength of 300 to 1200 nm is incident on the optical filter (1a) at incident angles of 0°, 30°, 35°, and 40°, the optical filter (1a) satisfies given requirements related to a normalized spectral transmittance. The normalized spectral transmittance is determined by normalization of a spectral transmittance for each incident angle so that the maximum of the spectral transmittance for each incident angle in the wavelength range of 400 to 650 nm is 100%.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2018Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: NIPPON SHEET GLASS COMPANY, LIMITEDInventors: Tomitaka Takagi, Katsuhide Shimmo
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Patent number: 11548354Abstract: A laminated glass according to the present invention is a windshield for an automobile to which an information acquisition device for acquiring information from the outside of a vehicle by emitting and/or receiving light can be installed, the windshield including an outer glass plate that includes a first side and a second side that is opposite to the first side, an inner glass plate that is arranged opposite to the outer glass plate and has substantially the same shape as the outer glass plate, and an intermediate film that is arranged between the outer glass plate and the inner glass plate. The windshield includes an information acquisition region that is to be located opposite to the information acquisition device and through which the light passes.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2018Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: NIPPON SHEET GLASS COMPANY, LIMITEDInventors: Ryohei Ogawa, Kazuki Chiba, Hisashi Ogawa
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Patent number: 11541394Abstract: A reaction processor is provided with a reaction processing vessel in which a channel is formed, a liquid feeding system, a temperature control system for providing a high temperature region and a low temperature region to the channel, and a fluorescence detector for detecting the sample passing through a fluorescence detection region of the channel, and a CPU for controlling the liquid feeding system based on a signal that is detected. A target stop position X[L]0(n+1) of the sample in the low temperature region in an (n+1)th cycle is corrected from a target stop position X[L]0(n) of the sample in the low temperature region in the nth cycle based on the result of stopping control on the sample in the nth cycle.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2019Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignees: Nippon Sheet Glass Company, Limited, Go!Foton, Inc.Inventors: Takashi Fukuzawa, Naofumi Nishizawa, Hisao Nagata
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Publication number: 20220418050Abstract: Laminated glass includes: an outer glass plate having a first side and a second side; an inner glass plate that is arranged opposing the outer glass plate and has substantially the same shape as a shape of the outer glass plate; and an intermediate layer arranged between the outer and the inner glass, wherein the intermediate layer has a heat-generating layer including: a first bus bar that extends along an end portion closer to the first side; a second bus bar that extends along an end portion closer to the second side; and a plurality of heating lines arranged so as to connect the first bus bar and the second bus bar to each other, and when a predetermined voltage is applied between the first and second bus bars, an amount of heat generated per unit length of each of the heating lines is 2.0 W/m or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 1, 2018Publication date: December 29, 2022Applicants: PILKINGTON GROUP LIMITED, NIPPON SHEET GLASS COMPANY, LIMITEDInventors: Leigh MELLOR, Mark A. CHAMBERLAIN, Graham SIDDONS, Ryohei OGAWA, Kazuki CHIBA, Hisashi OGAWA, Kentaro YAMADA, Takumitsu SAKAMOTO
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Patent number: 11535726Abstract: A UV-IR-absorbing composition according to the present invention includes: an absorber formed by a phosphonic acid represented by the following formula (a) and copper ion, the absorber being dispersed in the UV-IR-absorbing composition; a phosphoric acid ester allowing the absorber to be dispersed; a matrix resin; and an alkoxysilane monomer.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2017Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: Nippon Sheet Glass Company, LimitedInventors: Yuichiro Kubo, Katsuhide Shimmo
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Patent number: 11529631Abstract: A reaction processor includes: a reaction processing vessel including a channel in which a sample moves and a pair of air communication ports, a first air communication port and a second air communication port, provided at respective ends of the channel; a temperature control system that provides a medium temperature region and a high temperature region between the first air communication port and the second air communication port in the channel; and a liquid feeding system that discharges and sucks air in order to move and stop the sample inside the channel. One of the pair of air communication ports of the reaction processing vessel that is farther away from the high temperature region communicates with the liquid feeding system via a tube. One of the pair of air communication ports of the reaction processing vessel that is closer to the high temperature region is opened to atmospheric pressure.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2019Date of Patent: December 20, 2022Assignee: Nippon Sheet Glass Company, LimitedInventors: Takashi Fukuzawa, Osamu Kawaguchi